George Clooney developing Film Based on the Government Bailouts

George Clooney is planning to make a film based on the true story of the 2008 government bailouts. He will produce and possibly direct the film. Stranger Than Fiction screenwriter Zach Helm is set to adapt the article for the screen. He also wrote and directed the film Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium.

The film will be based on a 2009 Washington Post article by Laura Blumenfeld called The $700 Billion Manabout TARP mastermind Neel Kashkari. You can read that article here. 

Clooney just wrapped principal photography on his next film, The Ides of March, which he directed based on the stage play Farragut North. That film is scheduled for an October 14th release.

A movie based on this whole bailout thing should be really interesting.